Thursday, October 6th 2022
Noctua Presents NA-TPG1 Thermal Paste Guard for AMD AM5
Noctua today announced its new NA-TPG1 thermal paste guard for AMD's latest AM5 based Ryzen processors. When the mounting pressure of the cooling solution is applied, excess thermal paste will be squeezed outwards. With AM5 CPUs, this excess paste tends to accumulate in the cut-outs at the sides of the heat-spreader and may become difficult to remove. Simple and risk-free to apply, the NA-TPG1 prevents this undesired phenomenon.
"While there's no denying that AMD's new Ryzen 7000 processors perform fantastic, we found that the cut-outs at the side of the heat-spreader tend to attract thermal paste that can be challenging to clean off" says Roland Mossig (Noctua CEO). "This is where our new thermal paste guard steps in: it's a simple yet highly effective tool for keeping your new Ryzen 7000 series CPU nice and clean."
Made from highly heat-resistant polycarbonate and forming a tight seal around the edges of the CPU's heat-spreader, the NA-TPG1 is simple and risk free to apply and remove. Despite its simplicity, it is highly efficient at preventing thermal paste from accumulating in the cut-outs at the sides of AM5 CPUs.
The NA-TPG1 will be available in a separate set with ten NA-CW1 cleaning wipes (NA-STPG1) as well as with new AM5 editions of Noctua's award-winning NT-H1 and NT-H2 thermal pastes. All three products are scheduled to become available in December.
The manufacturer's suggested retail price will be EUR/USD 7.90 for the NA-STPG1, EUR/USD 9.90 for the NT-H1 3.5 g AM5 Edition and EUR/USD 13.90 for the NT-H2 3.5 g AM5 Edition. For more information, visit this page.
"While there's no denying that AMD's new Ryzen 7000 processors perform fantastic, we found that the cut-outs at the side of the heat-spreader tend to attract thermal paste that can be challenging to clean off" says Roland Mossig (Noctua CEO). "This is where our new thermal paste guard steps in: it's a simple yet highly effective tool for keeping your new Ryzen 7000 series CPU nice and clean."
The NA-TPG1 will be available in a separate set with ten NA-CW1 cleaning wipes (NA-STPG1) as well as with new AM5 editions of Noctua's award-winning NT-H1 and NT-H2 thermal pastes. All three products are scheduled to become available in December.
The manufacturer's suggested retail price will be EUR/USD 7.90 for the NA-STPG1, EUR/USD 9.90 for the NT-H1 3.5 g AM5 Edition and EUR/USD 13.90 for the NT-H2 3.5 g AM5 Edition. For more information, visit this page.
86 Comments on Noctua Presents NA-TPG1 Thermal Paste Guard for AMD AM5
Lets make the AM4 coolers compatible for a change. It helps with the tons of E-waste. No need to design a new cooler (or bracket) for that instance now.
Or perhaps the chip, components are sensitive to sudden changes in temperature (expand retract) and with a thicker IHS the problem is'nt so there no more. Any higher end Intel suffers the same or even higher temperatures (100 degrees).
They designed the chip to run that hot. It is inevitable if you consider the amount of transistors on such a small space. It becomes more difficult to cool the smaller things become.
There's tests showing zero difference in between a 360mm AIO cooler vs a simple air cooler. The boost will still stay the same. You are not losing performance.
Apparently now a cpu that runs hot is better than one that grants the same performance with lower temps and less power consumption. Sure...
How about efficiency? To reduce the E-Waste they decided to increase temps, power consumption and CO2? Brilliant strategy to save the planet.
If I'm not wrong the ECO modes aren't available yet, but one has to fiddle around with the bios to make the cpu behave like that.
If the eco modes reduce the base frequency of the cores during heavy multithreading tasks, like rendering, there will be a reduction in performance, inevitably. And this is why having the cpu to run cooler at stocks, but granting the same performance would be a better option: because there will be more room for performance tweaks.
Anyway, I don't have the money to buy the Ryzen 9, so not really a problem for me. I wish it was.
Peace guys. :D :D
When I said the socket could have been higher I meant the socket:
I think everything that the Cambridge Dictionary states is the case here. But I am not here to defend another person, Mr. Wallossek's work speaks for himself and based on that I doubt he just is what you call an internet diva or tech journalist (makes you look like someone that sees the job of a journalist in a depreciative manner) and even if the latter was the case: It's good educated journalists most of us get/should get their information from. That's also the reason people like you and me visit pages like - just an example^^ - techpowerup.
Apart from this I doubt there really is a "toxic competition" between Roman (also not just a "simple" youtuber without proper background) and Igor at all. Looks more like a well thought over behaviour that's generating attention for both of them - at least in your case it did work. If I had to guess: Maybe you just are missing the language skills understand what's going on between them.
7900x can be happily tuned to run at under 100W
8% performance loss in MT, but he ran a -100MHz PBO offset - there would definitely be in-between settings like a 120W target that would shrink that
In that regard, Intel\AMD made us a "great service" by maximizing performance so you dont need to del with OC yourself. But it got too far and one must underclock to get a resenably operating CPU (and GPU as well).
Next up: NVMe underclock
Here's a good example of what you can get if the silicon lottery is kind to you.
A 31 degrees drop while only losing 14 MHz, although that's not what to expect from every CPU, obviously. (Yes, I've posted this before, together with links)
AMD can definitely tune default PBO settings in AGESA updates, when they have that much room to spare.